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Mina

"It's not the Grassis"

Really, ere they even thinking in suspecting them? I mean, it was easy to jump to conclusions when you had an eye-witness who made a positive ID You know, especially when you are a bunch of headstrong, testosterone-filled bikers running on fue of not being able to pin it on anyone

But that, inballs to the wall on a completely crazy, asinine theory

That, however, did not stop theout what I knew to be amob fan even came into power

I was leaning back against the wall, arnored I was pretty sure no one had even heardthe Grassis But they were on a tear and I was an outsider, so they weren't going to listen to me until they calmed down anyway

I wasn't sure what Lo was thinking when she pulledreally well at, and brought me back to Navesink Bank to oversee the damn improvements of The Hench them create a profile for the people that were after them

Really, she knew better

It wasn't that I wasn't good atoutside of law enforce said, she knew I had preferences She knew I liked to work froet a bird's eye view of the whole thing It helpedfed the bullshit lies most people would feed me one way or another And, in the end, it saved me a lot of frustration

But there I was amid the chaos in the common room of their co had been covered in blood I hadn't seen that part uys had cleaned it up, but I could only iiven how ht of the ambush

It wasn't that I shied away from blood To be perfectly honest, the stuff I had seen in pictures of brutal rapes, tortures, and h to turn anyone half-crazy But, it was always in that sterile form- I always saw it in pictures

Again, giving me my distance

I liked my life, as much as possible, to be clean and compartmentalized

It was so, in the past, Lo had always accepted and accommodated While the rest of the teaot to watch from a distance